OLD VIOLINS.
TO TB* IDITOK Or "TBI MSM." Sir, —Regarding your column in to* day's "Press" regarding an old violin in possession of a Bangiora lady, I beg to inform you I have a violin marked '' Giovan Paolo Maggini. £ecil in Breda, 1603."—Yours, etc., A. B. WTTHBOCK. 20 Leinster road, Mcrivalc, April 24th, 1925. '
TO THB XDTTOX OF. "THI nSSS.'* Sir,—ln connexion with the paragraph in to-day's "Press" ro "Supposed Strad Violin" discovered at Bangiora, dated 1742, I wish to state that I possess a violin bearing a ticket insido inscribed: "Antonius StradinTarias Cremonemis Faciebat Anno 1736." The 17 is printed and # the 36 in Indian ink. My grandmother, in Lancashire, England, made nic a present of this instrument. If it is of interest, it is open for inspection at address below. Could you or any reader please inform me if there is an authority of Strads in Christchurcl)? —Yours, etc., H. PEEKS. Mill road, Styx, April 24th, 1925.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18367, 28 April 1925, Page 11
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159OLD VIOLINS. Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18367, 28 April 1925, Page 11
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